Shadrach (1998)

Directors

Susanna Styron

Cast

Martin Sheen, John Franklin Sawyer, Scott Terra, Ginnie Randall, Darrell Larson, Deborah Hedwall, Harvey Keitel, Andie MacDowell, Richard K. Olsen, Melvin L. Cauthen, Edward Bunker, Muse Watson, Michael Ruff, Monica Bugajski, Erin Underwood, Jonathan Parks Jordan, Daniel Treat, Alice Rogers, Olivia Bost, Rick Warner

The story

Before the Civil War, the Dabney family of Virginia sold their slave, Shadrach (John Franklin Sawyer), to plantation owners in Alabama, separating him from his family. In 1935, during the Great Depression, Shadrach—at the age of 99—walks the 600 miles from his home in Alabama to the Dabney farm in Virginia. His one request is to be buried in the soil of the farm where he was born into slavery.

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